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Discussion on: What Alternative Text Editors Does DEV Use? (Not VS Code 🐱‍👓)

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joebell1329 • Edited

I've actually found that VS Code is way more resource hungry than Webstorm. After loading up a large project I'm working on Webstorm consumes about 700MB of memory whilst the same project in VS Code consumes 1.3GB of memory.

Also, though it takes a while, when Webstorm has indexed the project it makes it very snappy to search / navigate around.

Huge fan of Webstorm to be honest. So many things just work nicely out of the box.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

That is unexpected. Cool though!

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Varun Barad

Agreed. Once WebStorm finishes indexing then it knocks every ball out of the park. No competitions 💪